Guwahati: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Bihar Assembly Speaker, Nand Kishore Yadav, has been named the new Governor of Nagaland.
Responding to the development, Yadav thanked President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the responsibility and said he would work towards the state's growth while upholding constitutional principles.
Yadav has had a long political journey in Bihar and represented the Patna Sahib constituency. Between 2024 and 2025, he held the post of Speaker of the Bihar Assembly. Over the years, he also handled key departments such as Road Construction and Health and earlier served as Leader of the Opposition in the assembly.
His selection comes amid a broader round of changes involving Governors and Lieutenant Governors in several states and Union Territories.
Retired Army officer Syed Ata Hasnain will assume the role of Governor in Bihar. Meanwhile, R. N. Ravi is shifting from Tamil Nadu to West Bengal after C. V. Ananda Bose stepped down from the post.
Vinai Kumar Saxena will take charge as Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, while former diplomat Taranjit Singh Sandhu has been assigned the same role in Delhi. Shiv Pratap Shukla is moving from Himachal Pradesh to Telangana, and Jishnu Dev Varma will become the Governor of Maharashtra.
Kavinder Gupta, who earlier served as Ladakh's Lieutenant Governor, has now been appointed Governor of Himachal Pradesh.
In addition, Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, who heads the Raj Bhavan in Kerala, has been assigned additional responsibility for Tamil Nadu.